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Meili Cloud Zhongwei Data Center

Zhongwei, Ningxia, China · Zhongwei market · location approximate to city level

Also listed as 中冶美利云中卫数据中心.

Meili Cloud Zhongwei Data Center is a data center project in Zhongwei, China, operated by Meili Cloud (中冶美利云产业投资股份有限公司, 000815.SZ). It is operational and expanding. The operator has not published an IT load figure. It reports 20,000 racks in service. ArusGrid does not convert racks into MW.

Latest change on record: entered the record as expanding on 28 July 2026. Record last checked against its sources on 17 October 2026.

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Stage
Expanding
Planned IT load
Not published
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Meili Cloud (中冶美利云产业投资股份有限公司, 000815.SZ)
Colocation
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Verified
Will it get built?Built7 of 7 gates passed
✓ Land secured✓ Power arranged✓ Approvals granted✓ Money committed✓ Tenant or own use✓ Builder appointed✓ Construction started

This project is built or running, so every gate counts as passed.

Build odds is ArusGrid's reading of the public record, not a forecast, a rating or advice. It counts the gates this project has passed in public sources. Private progress does not show, a passed gate can be undone, and projects that pass every gate still stop. The method has not yet been tested against outcomes. How it works.

China, 2026-10-12. China coverage is a pilot of one cluster, Zhongwei in Ningxia, entered on 12 October 2026 from Chinese-language primary and state press sources. Other Chinese hubs are not yet covered, so no China total here describes the country. Many Chinese projects publish rack counts and no megawatts. ArusGrid records the rack count and leaves capacity blank rather than convert it.

Where it sits

Zhongwei holds 18 active projects with 3,558 MW of planned IT load between them, and Meili Cloud Zhongwei Data Center has no published figure so it sits outside that ranking. Of those, 5 are operational, 5 are operational and expanding, 3 are under construction, 3 are at the land and permitting stage and 2 are announced only. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for Zhongwei, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.

It is the only Meili Cloud project ArusGrid tracks. Named users of the compute are China Telecom and Beilong Chaoyun (北龙超云) (confirmed).

The build is phased. E1, E3, C1 is operational; B1, B3, C3 is under construction. The stage was recorded as operational and expanding on 28 July 2026. Power comes from self-built (宁夏誉成云创) through a dedicated substation at 110 kV. Cooling uses air cooling.

The US export control position for advanced AI chips in China, as of 7 October 2026, is recorded as “Licence required, presumption of denial, case-by-case review for H200-class chips since 15 January 2026”. ArusGrid holds 5 public sources for this project, the latest dated 24 August 2026, and last checked the record on 17 October 2026.

How well evidenced is it

Running capacity. The site is operational or expanding. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

Named funderNo
Disclosed client (confirmed)Yes
Committed or approved capitalNo
Dated, sized phaseNo
Three or more sourcesYes
Dated source in the last 24 monthsYes

AI workloads

StatusLikely

A GPU cloud operator is a confirmed tenant.

Access to AI chips

GradeLicence required for a party

A party to this project (its operator, that operator's group, a funder, or a confirmed client) is headquartered in China or Macau or has an ultimate parent there. US rules require a licence for advanced AI chips destined to such entities wherever they are located. This describes the rule and says nothing about whether a licence was sought, granted or refused. Criteria are published on the Methodology page.

US licence required for this destination as enforcedYes
A party headquartered in China or Macau on the projectYes
Country-level export frameworkNo
A party named in a government authorisationNo
US approved operator or confirmed client on the projectNo
Named chip-vendor partnershipNo

Licence required, presumption of denial, case-by-case review for H200-class chips since 15 January 2026 · Licence required, presumption of denial, case-by-case review for H200-class chips since 15 January 2026 (2026-10-07) source

Phases

E1, E3, C1 · OperationalSize not published
B1, B3, C3 · Under constructionSize not published

Stage history

2026-07-28Expanding · finance.sina.com.cn

Who is behind it

OperatorMeili Cloud (中冶美利云产业投资股份有限公司, 000815.SZ) · Colocation

Who uses the compute

Tenant · telcoChina Telecom · confirmed

as of 2026-04-24

The 2025 annual report coverage names China Telecom as a customer.

Source · 扭亏为盈再提速!美利云2025年盈利转正,2026年一季度净利同比翻番,绿色算力增长动能强劲 (证券时报, 2026-04-24)

Tenant · GPU cloudBeilong Chaoyun (北龙超云) · confirmed

as of 2026-04-24

The 2025 annual report coverage names Beilong Chaoyun as a customer.

Source · 扭亏为盈再提速!美利云2025年盈利转正,2026年一季度净利同比翻番,绿色算力增长动能强劲 (证券时报, 2026-04-24)

Colocation price per kW of IT load per month

No published price band exists for China, and ArusGrid does not estimate from the regional benchmark alone. What was searched is listed on the Colo prices page.

Power supply
Dedicated substationself-built (宁夏誉成云创) · 110kV · Aug 2026 Confirmed source ↗
110kV substation and line project funded by raised capital, approved by the board on 2025-07-11. CNY 17.53m spent in H1 2026, CNY 24.07m cumulative, 29.25% complete. Capacity not stated. · Applies to the whole campus.
Water and cooling
CoolingAir cooled Confirmed source ↗
Full natural air cooling supplemented by wet-film humidification. Zhongwei annual average temperature 8.8C.

Sources checked 2026-10-17

  1. 美利云:公司三栋机房已完成土建 (证券日报网 via Sina, 2026-07-28)
  2. 扭亏为盈再提速!美利云2025年盈利转正,2026年一季度净利同比翻番,绿色算力增长动能强劲 (证券时报, 2026-04-24)
  3. 宁夏中卫算力产业规模跃升 (经济日报, 2026-02-08)
  4. 中冶美利云产业投资股份有限公司2026年半年度报告全文 (中冶美利云产业投资股份有限公司 (000815), 2026-08-24)
  5. 12天7板牛股澄清:公司暂未提供算力 (证券时报e公司 via 同花顺, 2026-08-05)

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Planned MW is IT load, the power available to servers, unless marked otherwise. Running capacity is rarely published, so a missing figure means undisclosed. Definitions, sourcing standards and evidence rules are on the Methodology page. Data is CC BY-NC 4.0. Corrections go to corrections@arusgrid.com. Dataset updated 2026-10-18.